Re: [Gimp-developer] Please restore removed crop tool functionality

2009-03-28 Thread Sampo Niskanen
Hi, On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Simon Budig wrote: The current development branch has the menu entry Image - Fit Canvas to Selection, which - together with the rectangle select tool - does provide exactly this functionality. This functionality is also in the current 2.6 builds. This feature

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-28 Thread Tobias Jakobs
Hi Peter! On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 21:38, peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net wrote: ... please post your suggestions what we could do. What about a concept for an metadata viewer/editor. Thats a thing, that's completely missing in GIMP. It doesn't sound very sexy to design an UI for that problem,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dockable Dialogs Should be Dockable Everywhere

2009-03-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 21:38 +0100, drizzt wrote: The kernel internals are moving, and a lot, but this the user don't care about. you can rewrite gimp every day if you want, nobody (or no user at least) will care, if the user interface is stable. Sorry, but the GIMP user interface

Re: [Gimp-developer] Please restore removed crop tool functionality

2009-03-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 10:24 +0200, Sampo Niskanen wrote: However, I'd say that this is quite an unintuitive way of performing cropping. If I want to crop an image, my attention goes to the features offered by the crop tool, not the selection tool. That's the whole point. You don't

Re: [Gimp-developer] Please restore removed crop tool functionality

2009-03-28 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 28 March 2009, Sven Neumann wrote: That's the whole point. You don't want to crop the image, you want to enlarge it. That's exactly why we moved this functionality out of the Crop tool. A user who wants to enlarge the image is never going to look for this in the Crop tool. It

Re: [Gimp-developer] GSOC 2009: GEGL-based file loaders for GIMP

2009-03-28 Thread Martin Nordholts
YongLi wrote: I am also interesting in this project: GEGL-based file loaders for GIMP. I'm preparing the proposal, and it says in the introduction that The exact approach at this is still to be decided but will only require a small set of discussions and agreements between core developers.

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 10:32 +0100, Tobias Jakobs wrote: P.S. Isn't a metadata viewer/editor a nice GSOC project idea? There is a metadata viewer/editor plug-in in the GIMP source tree for a long time already. Someone just needs to finish this project as it appears that Raphael is not going

[Gimp-developer] Sharing of room for three at Les Studios for LGM

2009-03-28 Thread Martin Nordholts
Hi I was wondering if anyone is interested in sharing a room for three at Les Studios for LGM? A solo room for four days including breakfasts costs CAD $208 per person, while a room for three costs just CAD $104 per person [1] - Martin [1] http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/location.php

Re: [Gimp-developer] Please restore removed crop tool functionality

2009-03-28 Thread yahvuu
Hi all, Sven Neumann schrieb: So why do you assume that a crop tool would allow you to enlarge the image? with GIMP becoming a non-destructive editor at heart, i think it's natural to expect cropping to work non-destructively, too. Then it's more like selecting a frame for an (conceptually)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Sharing of room for three at Les Studios for LGM

2009-03-28 Thread Louis Desjardins
Hi Martin! Right, but there is a little error I only realise now, reading your post, in the Multi room offering (and it’s the same mistake in the DUO and Cosy Suite offerings, I believe) : there is only *one* breakfast attached to this deal, not 3... :S So you must add 2 breakfasts at the

[Gimp-developer] Gimp interface changes

2009-03-28 Thread Nathael Pajani
Hi all, Yes, a long one once again. You may be accustomed by now. But I hate being shallow-minded. As the subject changed, I think it is interresting to reflect the change in the mails subject, but this is a follow up of the Re: [Gimp-developer] Dockable Dialogs Should be Dockable Everywhere

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp interface changes

2009-03-28 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Nathael Pajani wrote:   Sorry, but the GIMP user interface sucks and that urgently needs to   change. Has there been a survey about this ? http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/2006/11/creating-user-scenarios-with-gimpteam.html http://gui.gimp.org/

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp interface changes

2009-03-28 Thread David Gowers
Hello Nathael, On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Nathael Pajani g...@nathael.net wrote: Hi all,   It appears that your only problem is that things are changing. Sorry, but you   will have to get along with that. We are not going to stop ourselves from   changing the GIMP user interface to